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Nana Addo receives
rousing welcome in Tamale
Tamale, July 21, Ghanadot/GNA-
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, flagbearer of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) has urged Ghanaians to support the Electoral
Commission (EC) to conduct the upcoming December elections
in a free, fair and transparent manner.
He urged the EC to ensure that the elections were conducted
in a transparent manner to ensure that the results would be
accepted by both winners and losers.
Nana Akufo-Addo made the appeal in Tamale on Sunday, when he
addressed an enthusiastic and huge crowd at the Jubilee Park
on his arrival in the Metropolis to begin his four-day
campaign tour of the Northern Region.
The crowd earlier had earlier in the afternoon met Nana Addo
and his campaign team at the outskirts of Tamale in buses,
pick-up vehicles, motor-cycles and on foot, singing the NPP
campaign songs and dancing in the Kangaroo dance.
Nana Akufo-Addo was accompanied by members of his campaign
team and stalwarts of the party including the Vice-
President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, Alhaji Mustapha Ali Idris,
Northern Regional Minister, Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, former
Minister of Finance, Alhaji Abubakr Saddique Boniface,
Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Mr. Alan
Kyeremanten former Trade and Industries Minister and Hajia
Alima Mahama, Minister for Women and Children’s Affairs.
The NPP Flagbearer told the heavy turn out of people:
“Tamale, the heart beat of the Northern Ghana is now the
“World Bank” of the NPP”.
He stressed the need for peace and stability in the country
and said there was no need for a single drop of Ghanaian
blood to be shed because of the upcoming general elections
since the elections were a contest of ideas and not war.
Nana Akufo-Addo said the NPP detested and rejects the
politics of divide and rule which pitches sections of the
Ghanaians against others adding, “We are all Ghanaians,
whether Dagomba or Gonja, Mamprusi or Komkomba or Ewe or
Akan or Akyem”, with a common destiny.
He reiterated his pledge to bridge the development gap
between the North and the South and explained that if voted
into power he would ensure that agriculture was seriously
promoted in Northern Ghana to make it the breadbasket of the
country.
He said this would be done through the construction of
several irrigation dams, provision of dams, boreholes and
all the necessary agriculture inputs to make farming
attractive and rewarding.
Nana Akufo-Addo said an NPP government under his leadership
would establish a Northern Development Authority directly
under the presidency to ensure that all development issues
in the northern part of the country were given the necessary
attention.
He said the NPP would also expand education facilities in
the North to ensure that people in the area were afforded
the best quality of education adding that if elected
president he would make secondary education also free.
Nana Akufo-Addo reiterated his call on the people of the
three Northern Regions to change their pattern, and this
time round vote for the NPP, which he said had brought a lot
of development to the area, in the next December polls.
Mr. Alan Kyeremanten, a member of the campaign team of Nana
Akufo-Addo, described Nana as a courageous man who had
fought for the rights of Ghanaians over the last 35 years.
He said he was a man of vision and a unifier who could
provide Ghanaians with the needed leadership to take the
country forward to its next level of development and
therefore urged the electorate to vote massively for Nana
and the party’s parliamentary candidates in the December
general elections.
He said the four compelling reasons why the NPP should be
retained in government included its development achievements
over the past seven years, the development projects it was
still undertaking and the quality of leadership it was
providing for Ghanaians.
GNA
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